Sunday, December 17, 2017

Nerd communication skills


As my readers know I have an almost nerdish obsession in my writing with being very succinct and trying to make complicated things simple, which seems to be the opposite of the miscommunications of the nerds, who have been enjoying an almost chic acceptance since the dawn of the computer age. This may be one of the reason why I have about lost patience with nerd communication skills. I think the best advice a writer (or any kind of communicator) can get is that writing should illuminate, not obfuscate, which I think came from one of the early modernist poets, of all people.

If the nerd is actually unable to be understood due to obsessions caused by, say, the Asperger syndrome, that could be given consideration. Even so, a natural selection process should be taking place where the nerds who do learn to communicate are chosen and those who cannot are allowed to remain in there cubicles.

This is one more example of why traditional conservatism is better than libertarianism. Laissez faire can be inspiring but there comes a time when it becomes negatively indulgent. I think the general libertarianism in the U.S.A. has allowed the nerds to expect or even demand that others to do the work they should be doing themselves to be understood, which is just plain selfish behavior...The truly great minds were great largely because they made formerly complicated things simple.

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